Science Learning and Scientific Reasoning

科学学习与科学推理

• 批准号: 7938073
• 负责人: Lei Bao
• 金额: $ 48.57万
• 依托单位: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-24 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7938073
• 关键词: Address; Area; Communities; Databases; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational Intervention; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Engineering; Evaluation Studies; Fostering; Future; Future Generations; Goals; International; Knowledge; Learning; Mathematics; Outcome; Quantitative Evaluations; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Science; Societies; Solid; Students; System; Technology; age group; base; career; effective intervention; expectation; innovation; instrument; knowledge base; next generation; programs; public health relevance; research and development; teacher; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Science Learning and Scientific Reasoning This application addresses broad Challenge Area (12) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM) and specific Challenge Topic, 12-OD-101: Efficacy of educational approaches toward promoting STEM competencies. In STEM education, widely accepted teaching goals include not only the development of solid content knowledge but also the development of general scientific reasoning abilities that will enable students to successfully handle open-ended real-world tasks in their future careers. The goal of this project is to develop a research infrastructure for conducting systematic studies and evaluation of the effectiveness of widely used interactive engagement and inquiry based education interventions on developing students' ability in scientific reasoning. To achieve the research objectives, we will conduct four areas of studies and developments: (1) Refine and complete a standardized assessment instrument on scientific reasoning to produce a valid and easy-to-use assessment tool suitable for large scale quantitative evaluations. (2) Evaluate the effectiveness of several education programs and innovations in their impacts on developing scientific reasoning ability. (3) Develop a large scale national and international quantitative assessment database on scientific reasoning for students from different age groups and backgrounds. (4) Develop a community users and researchers to sustain future research and development in education that promotes scientific reasoning. These new developments will provide educators and researchers with vital instruments, practical examples and resources, and a solid research knowledge base for developing and implementing curricula or interventions that are effective in helping students gain both content understanding and general scientific reasoning abilities in STEM areas. This project will make direct impact to hundreds of teachers and researchers and tens of thousands of students. The products of this project will make long-term sustained impact on the public's views and expectations of STEM education and how we teach future generations in science and technology. The outcomes will also help the transition of our education system from content-oriented teaching to ability fostering, which will produce a more competitive next generation workforce to sustain the prosperity of our society. Public Health Relevance: The goal of this project is to develop a research infrastructure for conducting systematic studies and evaluation of the effectiveness of widely used interactive engagement and inquiry based education interventions on developing students' ability in scientific reasoning. These new developments will provide educators and researchers with vital instruments, practical examples and resources, and a solid research knowledge base for developing and implementing curricula or interventions that are effective in helping students gain both content understanding and general scientific reasoning abilities in STEM areas.

描述（由申请人提供）：科学学习和科学推理 该应用程序涉及广泛的挑战领域 (12) 科学、技术、工程和数学教育 (STEM) 以及具体的挑战主题 12-OD-101：教育方法对提升 STEM 能力的有效性。在STEM教育中，广泛接受的教学目标不仅包括发展扎实的内容知识，还包括发展一般的科学推理能力，使学生能够在未来的职业生涯中成功处理开放式的现实世界任务。该项目的目标是开发一个研究基础设施，用于系统研究和评估广泛使用的互动参与和基于探究的教育干预措施对培养学生科学推理能力的有效性。为实现研究目标，我们将进行四个方面的研究和开发：（1）细化和完善科学推理标准化评估工具，形成有效且易于使用的适合大规模定量评估的评估工具。 (2) 评估若干教育计划的有效性以及其对发展科学推理能力的影响的创新。 (3) 为不同年龄层和背景的学生开发大规模的国内外科学推理定量评估数据库。 (4) 发展社区用户和研究人员，以维持未来促进科学推理的教育研究和发展。这些新进展将为教育工作者和研究人员提供重要的工具、实例和资源，以及坚实的研究知识基础，用于开发和实施课程或干预措施，有效帮助学生获得 STEM 领域的内容理解和一般科学推理能力。该项目将对数百名教师和研究人员以及数万名学生产生直接影响。该项目的产品将对公众对STEM教育的看法和期望以及我们如何教育后代科学技术产生长期持续的影响。这些成果还将有助于我们的教育体系从以内容为导向的教学向能力培养的转变，从而培养出更具竞争力的下一代劳动力，以维持我们社会的繁荣。 公共卫生相关性：该项目的目标是开发一个研究基础设施，用于进行系统研究和评估广泛使用的互动参与和基于探究的教育干预措施对培养学生科学推理能力的有效性。这些新进展将为教育工作者和研究人员提供重要的工具、实例和资源，以及坚实的研究知识基础，用于开发和实施课程或干预措施，有效帮助学生获得 STEM 领域的内容理解和一般科学推理能力。